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What is It?

03/08/2016 2:10 PM
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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 2:26 PM

Hi-tech guillotine or stocks and pillories?
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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 2:28 PM

can you demonstrate?
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03/08/2016 2:52 PM

Ship it Maryland. I'm sure I can find some inside the Beltway who would be appropriate subjects for said demonstration.

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03/08/2016 2:33 PM

The best nutcracker you can buy.

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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 4:32 PM

correct
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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 2:38 PM

The bottom look simular to a press once used to press new tires on the rim on a fork lift.

Though you don't need a computer to do that. So the bottom is a compression tester.

The top tension?

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03/08/2016 3:45 PM

An even more complicated way to make fire?

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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 3:47 PM

Used to measure compressive and tensile strength of materials

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03/08/2016 6:37 PM

That's what I'd go with

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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 7:34 PM

and...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn3dz5HC164

good for columns in strike slip prone areas
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Re: What is It?

03/09/2016 12:07 AM

AHH, yes! They were fun, especially when we encountered one that a 'pranky' contractor slipped a piece of rebar into before it cured. POW!!!

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03/08/2016 4:04 PM

http://www.sans.cn/ProductHtml/20071583558240.html.

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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 4:27 PM

We had an Instron in a lab I worked in.

As gringogreg said, it tests tensile and compression of materials.
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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 4:29 PM

Besides its intended use, it can be used to pull the cork out of a wine bottle, and then push the cork back in if you don't finish the whole bottle.

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03/08/2016 4:47 PM

We used ours once to stretch the bosses 6 inch steel scale about 1/16-1/8 inch.

After patiently waiting for a few weeks, we called him over to settle a discussion on the length of a plastic part.

I measured it with my scale and gave it to him to measure. His reading was higher than mine. I called him out and gave the part back to him. He measured it again and proclaimed he was right and I was wrong.

Out came the calipers and we handed them to him. Needless to say, he was dumbfounded.

In the end we all had a good laugh. Him too.
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03/08/2016 7:51 PM

"His reading was higher than mine".Should have been: His reading was lower than mine.
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03/10/2016 12:08 PM

I'll bet you could sell those as a gag gift!

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03/08/2016 4:50 PM

or hang connecting rods on pistons
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03/09/2016 4:57 AM

I must try that, if I ever have a bottle that is not finished.

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03/09/2016 6:35 PM

What is this don't finish thing your refer to???

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03/10/2016 8:17 PM

Sorry I do not understand this concept of not finishing a bottle of wine.

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03/11/2016 4:08 AM

I think it's an urban myth, like those 'sharing' packs of sweets or crisps.

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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 4:39 PM

I believe this instrument tests tensile and compression failure strength of materials.

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Re: What is It?

03/08/2016 7:28 PM

amongst other things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67fSwIjYJ-E
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03/08/2016 7:36 PM

A machine to test how hard it is to break stuff?
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03/08/2016 7:42 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWfJxAeYxy8
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Re: What is It?

03/09/2016 2:10 AM

Universal Testing Machine for materials / hydraulic,,,,, CHT4000 Series.
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Re: What is It?

03/09/2016 12:25 PM

I see a very elaborate press for setting a bearing into its enclosure by lowering the top section to the base. But there may be a less expensive hydraulic press that would suffice.
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03/09/2016 12:29 PM

The CIA used this a Gitmo to extract answers from terrorists by telling them it was a brain scan that would read their thoughts, so they might as well talk now and avoid the crushing pain when their brains were "read".
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Re: What is It?

03/09/2016 6:52 PM

Sir Robin is very close.

It's actually one of Emperor Barry's FEMA Guillotines for snuffing out Patriots.

It somewhat looks like a concrete compressive strength testing apparatus.....for breaking concrete cylinders.

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03/09/2016 9:47 PM

A hamburger patty maker for the $25 burgers at Planet Hollywood?
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